Mini-Maker in You PD Event

Title: The mini-Maker in You: Making and Tinkering from an inclusive lens

Date: October 21st, 2022

Time: 9:00am (soft start) – 1:30pm (soft closing)

Mode: multi-access – participants may choose to attend in-person or via Zoom

Description:

Join us for some hands-on opportunities and a keynote presentation to help you consider equity and diversity in making and makerspace approaches to interdisciplinary teaching and learning across contexts. It is through the activity of making and considering the needs of those with whom (and/or for whom) we make, that one can develop a deeper appreciation for and understanding of a a diversity of perspectives while engaging in and developing a more inclusive community.

Workshops are facilitated by MET students from varied contexts as well as Faculty of Ed alumni and invited guests including K12 teachers. All sessions will support connections across the curriculum and grade levels.

Workshops include (additional workshops and descriptions coming every day!)

• In person:
  • Big Body Making (an approach to making involving the whole person!) with Angela Reynolds (adult educator, MET student), Join Angela for a unique combination of AI and Yoga (outdoors as long as weather holds). Here’s a short intro video on ‘genially’ shared by Angela.
  • Inclusive Making Challenges using high and low tech tools (Joe and Joyce Kwan, primary teacher and Senior Manager, Member Services, Squamish Nation, MET students). Link to a video Introduction to this highly interactive session.
  • Cross-Curricular Unit Planning (Amy Azaroff, intermediate teacher, MET student) In this hands-on session, we will dig into a cross-curricular unit combining Inquiry, Project Based Learning, the First Peoples’ Principals of Learning, the EDIDA Framework, and Universal Design for Learning (with no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech making. You will leave this workshop with a full unit that you can customize and use in your own classrooms and learning spaces [the unit was designed for intermediate and middle grades and can easily be adapted for elementary or high school participants]. You’ll also do some making! Please bring a discarded t-shirt and your Maker Mindset! We’ll have everything else you need (including hand sewers, needles & thread, glue guns & more!).
•  Zoom/Online
  • Creating Professional Learning Communities to collaborate, create, & MAKE using design thinking in Makerspaces (Paula Huddy-Zubkowski, Instructional Media & EdTech Consultant, MET student) Join this session as you learn what it means to have a maker mindset. Once you are inspired by the maker mentality you will learn how a Professional Learning Community can enhance your makerspaces in a classroom or a school setting. Through design thinking students will learn how to provide voice and choice to inspire them to be difference MAKERS! This session will navigate through the ChangeMAKER Challenge which shares critical thinking ideas for synchronous and asynchronous learning. This session will give you the opportunity to share STEAM ideas and resources that you can use in the classroom and share with your makerspace community. Open this LINK so you are ready for this session.
  • *Micro:bits coding kits and resources (Mary MacDonald, Pinnguaq organization, MET Alumni) Join us for an introductory workshop with Micro:bits. We will explore sound sensing and creating sound fx and music with micro:bits. You can use the simulator built into the Makecode editor or if you have a microbit on hand to play with, bring that along too! The V2 Micro:bit has a sound sensor built in for the sound sensing activities, you can create sound and music with both V1 and V2  and the simulator has both V1 and V2 built in. Learn how to code and play with sound and a micro:bit! You can use either a mobile device with the Makecode app or the online browser editor or the offline Makecode app.
  • Creating Human Connections in Every Classroom with Nazli Ighani from Diversify Learning. Target Audience: K-12 Teachers. This workshop will help you plan learning experiences for your students that will not only engage them but will give them the opportunity to share their thinking. Students will learn to develop their self-regulation skills and gradually be assigned responsibility in their learning.

Hosts: Yvonne Dawydiak, Learning Design Manager and Dr. Keri Ewart, UBC Master of Educational Technology Lecturer and Chair of MET 20th Anniversary Conference Committee

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. If you wish to join IN PERSON, please email scarfe.sandbox@ubc.ca with your name & affiliation and we’ll see if we can fit you in!